The only time I ever had problems with Plex using my g620 chip was trying stream 1080p content to my phone online. Streaming content via my network on my devices (Nexus 7, laptop, ps3, Samsung sII) all worked fine. I wanted to be able to stream to my devices online via internet and the g620 struggled so I bumped it up to a i5 2400 for the HT and it helped, but I found I don't use it as much now (haven't been able to really afford going on vacations as much as we used to) so now the i5 is just sitting on my desk.

This is exactly what I see with my G630 CPU. Good on network and poor to my iphone over internet.

This is exactly what I see with my G630 CPU. Good on network and poor to my iphone over internet.

I posted a question here on AT awhile back, but no one else really responded but blckgrffn lol. Here's the link kinda explaining the problem in case you wanted to read it. I also posted a question on the plex forums and got a few responses. Linked in that thread also.

i5-3450s is 65w and will help with transcoding if you need that. its what i use in my WHS 2011

I went with a g850 on my first htpc build and used an i5 2400 on my 2nd build. My server's currently running a g630 right now. Plex has added some new features since I posted this thread and everything seems to be working pretty well atm.

I went with a g850 on my first htpc build and used an i5 2400 on my 2nd build. My server's currently running a g630 right now. Plex has added some new features since I posted this thread and everything seems to be working pretty well atm.